The racial state shapes subject formation by defining who can form families and marry
Evidence
In Foucauldian terms, the state not only invades the body of subjects. It goes a long way in making bodies what they are, and by extension who they are. It is thus instrumental in subject formation. The more the racial state is implicated in fashioning the form and content of subject formation, the more it penetrates into everyday social life, and the greater the hold of race over the social horizons of the conceivable. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1707
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to Foucault’s biopower and subject formation concepts, and to the earlier material on state control of population.
Related
- The racial state is instrumental in forming subjects and their bodies (similarity 0.85)
- Racial states regulate family formation to control who reproduces the citizenry (similarity 0.85)
- The state imposed forced marriage on freed slaves as welfare cost control (similarity 0.82)
- State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. (similarity 0.80)
- The state’s defining capacity to exclude is what enables racial formation (similarity 0.79)
- Race is socially constructed rather than biologically real but has powerful social effects (similarity 0.78)
- Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.78)